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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States that occurred before she had legal permission to work in the country, according to documents from 20 years ago provided to The Associated Press....
ATLANTA (AP) -- With Hillary Clinton's lead narrowing recently, the Democrat's path to the Oval Office appears to rest where it did at the outset - a retooled version of the alliance that twice elected President Barack Obama....
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. (AP) -- Fighting as a party of one, Donald Trump vowed Saturday to press into Democratic strongholds over the campaign's final days as Hillary Clinton looked to an army of A-list celebrities and politicos to defend her narrowing path to the presidency....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday evening welcomed the Third World Meeting of Popular Movements at the Vatican. The Meeting brings together organizations of people on the margins of society, including the poor, the unemployed and those who have lost their agricultural land.In his remarks, he brought up many of the themes he discussed during his speech to the Second World Meeting of Popular Movements in Bolivia on 9 July 2015.Pope Francis warned against the rule of money, which governs with “the whip of fear, inequality, and violence – economic, social, cultural and military – which creates more and more violence in a downward spiral that never seems to end.”“The entire social doctrine of the Church and the magisterium of my predecessors rebels against the idol-money that reigns – tyrannizing and terrorizing humanity – instead of serving” said the Holy Father.“No tyranny can be sustained without exploiting our...
(Vatican Radio) The Statute of the Pontifical Academy for Life, signed by the Holy Father on 18 October, was published on Saturday, and will come into effect on 1 January 2017.The following is a working translation of the text. Part INature and AimsArticle 1 – Introduction§ 1 – The Pontifical Academy for Life, which has its seat in Vatican City State, was instituted by the Supreme Pontiff St. John Paul II by the Motu Proprio Vitae Mysterium of 11 February 1994.The aim of the Pontifical Academy for Life is the defence and promotion of the value of human life and the dignity of the person.§ 2 – The specific task of the Academy is to:a) study questions and issues connected with the promotion and defence of human life from an interdisciplinary perspective;b) educate in a culture of life – in relation to those aspects that belong to its specific range of competence – through suitable initiatives, always in full respect of the Magisterium of ...
(Vatican Radio) Dozens of Catholic martyrs who were killed between 1945 and 1974 by Albania's Communist regime for their Christian faith were beatified on Saturday during a Mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation of the Causes of Saints.The Beatification ceremony took place in the northwestern Albanian city of Shkodër.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Up to 20,000 people attended an emotionally charged Mass in and around the main cathedral in the city of Shkodër to remember the martyrs who refused to renounce their faith in Jesus Christ and were therefore executed by Albania's late communist dictator Enver Hoxha's regime. In April, Pope Francis officially recognized as martyrs Archbishop Vincens Prenushi and 37 other priests and consecrated persons who died in prison or were murdered from 1945 to 1974 by communist dictator Enver Hoxha's regime. Hoxha banned religion in 1967 and his regime persecuted especially ...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When the search for profits outweighsall other considerations in society, money becomes a god who terrorizeshumanity -- excluding the majority of people and causing those still well offto build walls to cower behind, Pope Francis said."The entire social doctrine of the church and themagisterium of my predecessors rebel against money as an idol that reignsinstead of serves, tyrannizing and terrorizing humanity," the pope said.Like all forms of terrorism, the terrorism of an economyfocused only on making money relies on people's fear for effectiveness, PopeFrancis said Nov. 5 during a meeting at the Vatican with participants in thethird World Meeting of Popular Movements, a collection of grassroots organizationsof the poor, the underemployed, indigenous communities and farmworkers."When this terror, which is sown in the peripherieswith massacres, pillaging, oppression and injustice, explodes in the centerswith various forms of violence -- includin...
SHKODER, Albania (AP) -- Thousands gathered in prayer Saturday at a cathedral in Albania to celebrate the beatification of 38 Albanian Catholic martyrs executed or tortured to death during the former communist regime....
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- The Harvard men's soccer team has apologized for sexual comments made about members of the women's soccer team that led the Ivy League school to suspend the men's team for the rest of the season....
NICHOLS, S.C. (AP) -- Nearly a month since floodwaters consumed this Mayberry-like hamlet in rural South Carolina, few have returned. The fear is that many never will....
